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Infiltrator CR Meme!

Once you've decided what role you want to play as an infiltrator, brainwashed to believe you belong in 1930s Brooklyn, this is the place to talk with other players about shared backstory and relationships you'd like to plan out for the plot. If you're playing a plot-important role, we'd ask that you not disclose any plot secrets here, obviously, and for ease of identification we ask that characters not change their first names unless absolutely necessary for suspension of disbelief, but otherwise everything is fair game! Just make a top-level comment below with your character's name in the subject line, fill out the little form, and then tag around as you like!

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Role in current universe: rake and ne'er-do-well, neutral in the mob conflict.
Backstory/Description of new identity: card-dealer at the Midnight Rose, pool hustler at Ocean's place, omnipresent, seedy, and for sale, his only loyalties are to aces and eight-balls.
Significant changes in personality/mannerisms: Very little has changed, except that he thinks he belongs here, & may not recognize your character.
Kinds of CR/RP scenarios you're looking for with this plot: witty banter, con-man shenanigans, and general funtimes!

Edited 2014-03-26 17:31 (UTC)

Role in current universe: seminary dropout turned Gravesend bodyguard.
Backstory/Description of new identity: Joscelin's a french catholic immigrant, sent away from seminary for an unspecified incident, taken under the wing of the Family priests who hear Gravesend mobsters' confessions and assigned to said mobsters as a bodyguard. A silent, sullen virtuoso with a pair of switchblades, Joscelin is clearly unhappy about... well, everything... but he hasn't opened up to anyone and he does what he's told.
Significant changes in personality/mannerisms: significantly less in the way of a visible moral compass, to say the least. Doesn't speak good English, relying mostly on french and sign language.
Kinds of CR/RP scenarios you're looking for with this plot: I'd like to see people try to get past his shell - both friendly and unfriendly people! And I'd like ethically complex bodyguarding shenanigans.

Edited 2014-03-26 17:37 (UTC)

Role in current universe: White Ribbon Drake, a young, straight-laced Bensonhurst rumrunner who's taken the Temperance pledge (i.e.; he doesn't drink.).
Backstory/Description of new identity: Drake's kind of a comic nobody in the gang world. An out-of towner who proved helpeful in dodging the law, he was hired on as a freelancer after several months of hanging around at all the wrong parties looking dapper and awkward. The White Ribbon of his nickname is meant to display that he's taken the Temperance pledge.
Significant changes in personality/mannerisms: a little more focus on being an awkward outsider in this scenario, but not much besides that.
Kinds of CR/RP scenarios you're looking for with this plot: Anything!!

Role in current universe: former Gravesend mobster, out of the game for five years but might finally be coming out of his slump. (His AU role calls for a different surname, since he'll be only half Japanese here. I am still trying to come up with something I don't hate for this. Stay tuned. orz)
Backstory/Description of new identity: The son of a Gravesend enforcer and his immigrant wife, Toshi grew up and straight into the business in his teens, and was a trusted and valued piece of the machinery by the time he was in his early twenties. Six years ago, he married; five years ago, a bullet that should've had his name on it found its way to his wife's head, instead. (Rumor and speculation lay the blame at the feet of the Bensonhursts, but nothing can be conclusively proven either way.) He took a sharp turn out of the business and started making some legit money writing penny dreadfuls to get by, but as the five year anniversary rolls around, his old contacts within the family have noticed that he doesn't seem to be shooting down any mention of business in his presence the way he used to, and they're hoping that maybe he's finally ready to come out of his slump. (Just don't ask him if he's ready to meet a new woman yet. You might get punched.)
Significant changes in personality/mannerisms: Not a great deal. He's as foulmouthed and grumpy as ever, still deeply loyal to the people who have earned it with him. The biggest change is likely that he's a bit more morally flexible.
Kinds of CR/RP scenarios you're looking for with this plot: ...actually, actually do ask him if he's ready to meet a new woman yet, I would love for him to actually punch one of y'all over it. That aside, I'd love for just about anything, but especially anyone who wants to pry into his dead wife issues and his change of heart.

Role in current universe: Something of a method of last resorts, he's usually called in to play clean up whenever the family needs it - or the younger pups need to be kicked back into line.
Backstory/Description of new identity: Third generation Bensonhurst enforcer, his family calling was only to ever serve the Family. He's proven the depth of this loyalty on numerous occasions... but never more than on the day he found out his father, mother, and three older siblings were plotting with the feds, to turn on the Family they'd worked so hard to protect. So, to prove his own loyalty, he'd done what needed doing and eliminated the threat. All of them.

He was seventeen at the time, and yet hadn't hesitated at all.

Cold, calculated, and utterly ruthless he may be, yet Zelman maintains something of an 'old world' kind of charisma or charm.
Significant changes in personality/mannerisms: Nothing notable really. His role with the family suits his personality rather perfectly...
Kinds of CR/RP scenarios you're looking for with this plot: I'd love to have someone test or worm in enough to force him to question the reason for the depths of his loyalty, maybe even make him question it a bit. Just to see how it shakes out.

Edited 2014-03-27 17:21 (UTC)

The new kid on the Bensonhurst block will probably be giving you a fair number of awed sideways looks when he hears that bit of backstory.

Edited 2014-03-27 18:48 (UTC)

Alas, Joscelin won't be the one to ask about a new woman. Or... anything else. Just glowering silently in a corner while he talks with those old contacts.

yeah yeah he's thrilled to make your acquaintance too, smiley.

you should definitely call him that

I AM UNSURE IF I CAN WORK IT IN, Hijikata's not quite that kind of asshole much, but sometimes he has his moments. I will seek the chance (ninja)

Stick with him, kid. He'll teach you all the best ~~vices~~ methods to attaining that level of ruthlessness!

Role in current universe: Piano player in the Le Chateau Blanc by day and lounge singer in the Midnight Rose at night.
Backstory/Description of new identity: TBD
Significant changes in personality/mannerisms: He's still a bit of an abrasive loner, but more because he's trying to avoid attachments while saving up enough money to move to Hollywood and pursue an acting career...
Kinds of CR/RP scenarios you're looking for with this plot: I'm game for anything, really, so hit me up!
Anything Else/: not at the moment?

If nothing else, Remy & Nezumi probably know one another through the Midnight Rose.

Role in current universe: Daughter of a millionaire, mob hanger-on, generally glamorous presence in your characters' faces
Backstory/Description of new identity: Her family being new money, earned in the last generation in part through unspecified but you better believe illicit means, Lydia has a lot to prove - and prove it she does, at every opportunity. Flaunting her wealth and seeking attention at every turn, she spends a lot of time with her friends in the mob, when she'd not making shrewd investments on the sly.
Significant changes in personality/mannerisms: Somewhat more attention-seeking than her standard counterpart, but just as attracted to the edge of danger, tbh.
Kinds of CR/RP scenarios you're looking for with this plot: I'd love to give Lydia a chance to show her intelligence, particularly in terms of figuring her way out of tricking situations as well as money/investment management. Which is probably not that fun to play out, but there it is if anyone wants it.
Anything Else/: GIVE ME EVERYTHING.

Lydia can absolutely make Joscelin her pet project of Socialization, Do The Thing if that's what you want. She is adept at taking people under her wing and aggressively befriending them until abruptly they realize they like her.

How about a surly french seminary student with a pair of switchblades who bodyguards your best friend? He doesn't say much, but Joscelin is very pretty.

Alternately, if she wants to hang out with the enemy, so to speak, there's White Ribbon Drake, the rumrunner who doesn't drink.

Haha simulcomment! Yeah, that basically has to happen now.

I WANT BOTH OF THESE. lydia loves pretty and will dangle off joscelin's arm happily. she will also just mock the heck out of tim for not drinking tbqh.

excellent

Oh definitely! Debating on whether Nezumi should dress as a woman for his nightly singing performances, because Eve is always fun to play with but haven't decided yet.

How would Remy react to that?

Raised eyebrow and increased flirting, probably.

Aha! Sounds like they'll have fun then. Maybe Nezumi shares drinks with him in between sets?

Excellent.

Role in current universe: Jaded, but good guy detective.
Backstory/Description of new identity: Just like any other good-old-boy American with a dream. He grew up admiring policemen and detectives, only when he finally got his dream, it turned out working as a detective was not as awesome and glamorous as he believed.
Significant changes in personality/mannerisms: Not much has changed; if anything he's a little bit more of a jerk.
Kinds of CR/RP scenarios you're looking for with this plot: Picking up a sidekick would be hilarious, but some good cop vs. con-man/mob-man shenanigans would be awesome too.

Witty mobster banter with Tim & Adachi?

Constantly losing card games against Remy?

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